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Each year, the Princeton Review compiles its extensive lists of higher education rankings across 382 colleges. While it's helpful to consider some traditional measures of a college's value (the standard of best classroom experience, for...
By Raisa Bruner
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He put in the hard work and earned his degree — but for recent grad Jerich Marco Alcantara, attending his formal graduation ceremony was just not to be. On the way to New York City's...
By Raisa Bruner
May 31, 2017
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Sen. Rand Paul will teach students at George Washington University about dystopias next fall. The Kentucky Republican's course will focus on "history of dystopian attitudes and how they relate to current events and political debates,"...
By Alana Abramson
April 27, 2017
Betsy DeVos Equated Historically Black Colleges to 'School Choice'
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was criticized Tuesday for praising the nation's historically black colleges and universities, as "pioneers" of the school choice movement. "HBCUs are real pioneers when it comes to school choice," DeVos...
By Maya Rhodan
February 28, 2017
Veterans Face Uphill Fight Getting College Credit for Military Training
One vet operated a nuclear reactor yet was asked to take introductory physics
By Jon Marcus / The Hechinger Report
December 21, 2016
Colleges Have No Right to Limit Students' Free Speech
America is a free-speech zone, period
By Cliff Maloney, Jr.
October 13, 2016
InterVarsity to Dismiss Employees Who Support Gay Marriage
InterVarsity has chapters on 667 college campuses nationwide
By Elizabeth Dias
October 6, 2016
America's Civic Duty: Start Teaching Democracy
The host of Tuesday's vice presidential debate offers a way to fix our politics
By W. Taylor Reveley IV
October 3, 2016
NCAA Pulls Championship Events from North Carolina
The move affects more than just March Madness
By Daniel White
September 12, 2016
Descendants of Slaves Sold by Georgetown Want University to Fund $1 Billion Foundation
The group are asking the school to do more for the public good
By Daniel White
September 9, 2016
This 12-Year-Old is a College Freshman at Cornell University
Jeremy Shuler, 12, is the youngest student on record at the Ivy League school
By Daniel White
September 2, 2016
Why College Is a Risky Time for Students' Mental Health
A new guidebook can help
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August 31, 2016
Police Could Have the Power to Deactivate Your Social Media
These are today's best ideas
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August 30, 2016
The Case for Giving Your Kids More Screen Time
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By The Aspen Institute
August 29, 2016
Clinton Adopts Sanders' Idea: Free College for (Almost) Everyone
Bernie Sanders has won a major concession from Hillary Clinton, who committed on Wednesday to a plan that would make college free for more than 80% of American families by 2021. Clinton's new plan would...
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Company promises to "Photoshop them in above the group before printing"
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May 18, 2016
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"I'm desperate to get students to take it seriously that they shouldn't be infecting one another"
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April 28, 2016
Exclusive All-Male Harvard Club Says Letting in Women Could Increase Sexual Misconduct
A report linked finals clubs with high levels of "nonconsensual sexual contact"
By Daniel White
April 13, 2016
Duke Students Occupy Administration Building in Racially Charged Protest
Students want a top administrator ousted over his alleged use of a racial slur against a parking attendant
By Maya Rhodan
April 4, 2016
Pro-Trump, Anti-Muslim Chalk Graffiti on Michigan Campus
"Stop Islam," "Build the Wall," "Stop the Rape of Europe" and "Trump 2016" were among the messages
By Justin Worland
April 1, 2016
Harvard Law School Supports Removing Shield With Ties to Slavery
It's based off the bookplate of a slave owner
By Maya Rhodan
March 4, 2016
How China's Economic Slump Could Hurt American Colleges
U.S. schools have become increasingly reliant on international students for cash
By Matt Krupnick/The Hechinger Report
January 4, 2016
Koch Brothers Spending More to Influence College Students
They gave $23.4 million in 2014 in a bid to influence students
By Center for Public Integrity / Dave Levinthal
December 15, 2015
Harvard to Change Controversial 'House Master' Title
Some students associated the title with slavery
By Melissa Chan
December 1, 2015
NYU Says White Student Union Facebook Page is a Hoax
The page may have been started by Internet trolls
By Daniel White
November 24, 2015
Here's Where Biden Would Have Broken With Clinton
When he announced he would not run for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, Vice President Joe Biden outlined a hypothetical campaign platform that would have fallen to the left of frontrunner Hillary Clinton on three...
By Ryan Teague Beckwith and Sam Frizell
October 21, 2015
Miami of Ohio Suspends Frats Amid Hazing Claims
Suspensions conclude a summer long hazing investigation
By Daniel White
September 11, 2015
Why Universities Have Their Own Armed Police Forces
The arrangement has a long history
By Eliza Gray
July 30, 2015
American Universities Are Failing at Ethics
Ethics, an academic discipline that routinely arbitrates competing claims, is rarely invoked as a discipline to address university problems
July 17, 2015
Education Department Won't Rate Colleges After All
The Department of Education announced this week that it's backing off its ambitious and controversial plan to rate all of the nation's colleges and universities, marking a win for institutions and the vast higher education...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
June 26, 2015
Clinton: Stop For-Profit Colleges From Targeting Veterans
Hillary Clinton announced on Thursday a new plan intended to stop for-profit colleges from fleecing veterans who use federal G.I. Bill funds to attend school. Speaking before a roundtable with veterans in Reno, Nevada, Clinton...
By Sam Frizell
June 18, 2015
Jeb Bush Once Cut Funding to His Campaign Launch Site
Jeb Bush is expected to trumpet his conservative credentials as the former governor of Florida Monday when he announces his presidential bid. But one casualty of his cost-conscious ways was the very school he selected...
By Zeke J Miller
June 15, 2015
University Considers Banning Women From Frat Parties
The latest proposal in the fight to end sexual assault on campus
By Eliza Gray
June 11, 2015
Training Program Reduced Risk of Campus Rape
Women trained in self defense and risk assessment were less likely to be victims a year after
By Eliza Gray
June 11, 2015
1 in 4 Harvard Grads Didn't Have Sex in College
And so much more info about Harvard's graduating class
By Justin Worland
May 27, 2015
This Robot Learned to Make a Salad by Watching YouTube
Julia Child taught a generation of Americans how to cook gourmet French cuisine by breaking it down into simple steps that anyone could follow. A robot named for her at the University of Maryland took...
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U.S. Flooded With Campus Sexual-Assault Complaints
Senators urge Congress to supply funds to help Department of Education's Civil Right Office deal with caseload
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How Colleges are Squeezing Students on Financial Aid
Dalia Garcia breathed a sigh of relief when she found out that she had been given enough financial aid to nearly cover the cost of tuition for her first year at California State Polytechnic University...
By Timothy Pratt
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These States Have the Most Jobs For College Grads
You'll never guess which little states hold the biggest opportunities
By Martha C. White
March 27, 2015
This Graduate Is Refusing to Pay Back Her Student Loans
"By using our debt as leverage, we’re making our voices heard"
By Victor Luckerson
March 17, 2015
Penn State Frat Suspended Over Pictures of Nude Women
Page featured images of nude, passed out women and drug sales
By Maya Rhodan
March 17, 2015
Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 25
1. The U.S. wants to hack your phone because it doesn’t have the real spies it needs. By Patrick G. Eddington at Reuters 2. Eight universities account for half of all history professors in the...
By The Aspen Institute
February 25, 2015
College Credit Now Comes Without the Classes
At 56, Linda McCampbell discovered she could get the college degree she always wanted. A Nashville paralegal for 30 years, McCampbell last year attended an eight-hour workshop to judge how her life experience might be...
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Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 20
1. Hollywood’s diversity problem goes beyond “Selma.” Asian and Latino stories and faces are missing. By Jose Antonio Vargas and Janet Yang in the Los Angeles Times 2. Shifting the narrative away from religion is...
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Princeton Receives $300 Million Rare Book Collection
Donation includes the earliest Bible prints, the original print of the Declaration of Independence and Beethoven's signed music sketchbook
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